Our Home
Helping transform children's lives since 2016
About Our Home
Our first home is a specialist therapeutic setting for girls aged between 10-18 years old who are deemed at risk of criminal or/ and sexual exploitation. We are incredibly proud of the high quality and nurturing care we provide to our girls. We work hard and with partners to make sure that every girl is supported to develop the tools they need throughout their lives.
Based in East London, we combine our team's lived experience of the care system, trauma and abuse alongside professional expertise, to create a safe place of sanctuary for our girls.
Our model is underpinned by research in the area of attachment theory, trauma informed practice - the neuroscience around the development of a child’s brain following early childhood trauma and other evidence based theories and practice. We are working alongside therapeutic communities to develop our own psychosocial model of practice.
We know that providing genuine love and care, lived experience, researched methods and robust evidence based practice creates a space for transformation.
Our home has four double bedrooms and our focus is to foster a family like home which supports our children in their overall wellness.
Our Home Aims
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To ensure our children are equipped with the right skills, coping mechanisms and therapies to actively work through the consequences of complex trauma, abuse and maltreatment; we want our children to understand that their trauma does not define them or their future story.
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To ensure support in key areas of development; health, education, social skills, emotional regulation, mental and spiritual well-being within a nurturing environment that safeguards and promotes the welfare of each child.
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To provide a resilient and experienced team of staff that role model good parenting, have high aspirations and help our children to re-build healthy attachments. We will work in collaboration with children, their family, the local authority, health professionals and Ofsted to achieve the best long-term outcomes for children.
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To provide consistent experiences that support a sense of belonging, identity and help our children to understand what it is to feel ‘safe and loved’ in relationships current and future and make steps towards positive life choices.
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To listen to and respond to the views, wishes and feelings of our children, ensuring their rights are championed and respected. Our children should feel comfortable to communicate with the adults caring for them and raise any concerns they have.
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To be a home which provides our children with experiences that are new and fun but that also challenges them to learn, grow and develop.
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To go above and beyond to equip our children with the essential life skills needed to flourish in life after being in care. Children will be mentored in how to manage and arrange their finances, employment, and higher educational attainment - such as college and or university. We will extend our support to children who have left the children’s home, providing supported living accommodation.
Our Ethos
We believe that transformation is possible no matter what the starting point, we believe this because many of us have seen it in our own journeys. Our lived experiences, and our commitment to overcoming and healing from them, have given us the resilience, optimism and hope we need to love our children.
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We know the wellbeing of our staff is crucial to creating a culture of wellness so this will always be paramount in our model. If our staff are well and nurturing themselves, they will do everything to model this to our girls.
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This is one of the most important ways that our girls will experience safe and secure love; a love that is patient and kind. This is the kind of love we will help them to learn to give themselves. We believe that sometimes people who need love the most will often ask for it in the most unloving ways, and these are our people!
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We are not religion driven, nor do we focus on any specific religious pathway, however, our children’s home projects came from our relationship with a local community church – Shoreditch TAB. We do believe that LOVE is at the centre of what we do and is lifelong.
Whatever life has in store for our girls there will always be a relationship to connect them back to Transform Children’s Homes.
Our Therapeutic Framework
At Transform UK we are committed to embracing a therapeutic, trauma-informed model throughout our entire organisation that is child focused, dedicating resources from the Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) Network, The Consortium of Therapeutic Communities (TCTC) and lived experience consultants to support this. Our dedicated team aims to reduce risk factors for children affected by sexual exploitation through intentional intervention, education, and therapy, building resilience and coping mechanisms for improved wellbeing.Our experience has shown us that the more we can embed understanding, healing and a skill set to support self-regulation, the better our children will thrive in life and healthy relationships in the adult world. Our support team is trained and supported to grow in understanding of these theories and the variety of therapeutic modalities which can support healing for children, their families and wider support networks.